Mark Osborn Jr 🌹

We absolutely need to keep PBS &NPR running. The last major bulwarks against censorship.

El Gobierno de España condena la pena de muerte contra palestinos que acaba de aprobar el parlamento de Israel. Se trata de una medida asimétrica que no se aplicaría a los israelíes que cometieran los mismos delitos. Mismo crimen, distinta pena. Eso no es justicia. Es un paso más hacia el apartheid. El mundo no puede callar.

Whatever Israel’s level of popularity is right now is its ceiling, because Israel is going to take a huge part of the blame for the financial crisis and likely recession about to hit us. And while the global economy is on its knees, Israel will *still* be pushing for the war on Iran to continue. And people will have had more than enough. @AOC breaking against Israel here is a major sign of their weakening position. She tried very hard to find some reasonable middle position that wasn’t full opposition but it just isn’t there with the way Israel behaves.

Your gut makes 95% of your body's serotonin, the same chemical that antidepressants are designed to increase. Your brain makes the other 5%. This 2016 study took stool samples from 34 people with major depression, wiped the gut bacteria out of a group of rats with antibiotics, and transplanted the depressed patients' bacteria into them. The rats stopped chasing rewards they had once enjoyed. They got more anxious. The chemical levels in their blood shifted to look like the depressed patients'. These rats weren't drugged or put under stress. They just received bacteria from depressed people, and their behavior changed on its own. Your gut wall is lined with about 500 million nerve cells, more than your spinal cord. This network operates so independently that it can process what's happening in your digestive tract and respond to it without ever checking in with your brain. Scientists call it the "second brain." The main wire connecting the two is the vagus nerve, and roughly 80% of the signals traveling on it run upward, from the gut to the brain. Your gut has more to say to your head than your head has to say to your gut. The serotonin part comes down to food. You eat turkey, eggs, or cheese, and your body releases a nutrient called tryptophan. Normally, that gets converted into serotonin. But certain gut bacteria grab that tryptophan first and burn through it before your body can use it to make serotonin. Less raw material for serotonin means less serotonin gets built. When researchers moved depressed patients' bacteria into rats, the same thing happened. This wasn't a one-off. A separate team published the same result in Molecular Psychiatry that year using mice born and raised in sterile labs with zero bacteria. Those mice have 2.8x less serotonin than normal mice. A 2011 Karolinska Institute study found that if you wait too long to introduce bacteria into these sterile mice, some of the brain changes can become permanently locked in. There's a window during which gut microbes help wire the developing brain, and once it closes, the wiring holds. The obvious next step is to test the reverse: pushing healthy bacteria into sick people. A 2025 review in Nutrients examined 19 clinical trials testing probiotics (specific bacterial strains taken as supplements) on people diagnosed with depression. All 19 showed reduced symptoms. The field now calls these mood-targeting bacteria "psychobiotics," a term coined in 2013 by researchers at this same University College Cork lab. The trillion bacteria in your gut do more than digest food. They manufacture brain chemicals and fire signals up a nerve highway to your skull every second you're alive. This study showed that you can transplant depression between species by moving bacteria. 19 out of 19 clinical trials say the reverse works too.

LOL!!! Miami-Dade College gifted this multimillion dollar public land under the purview of it being a presidential library just so he could grift and build a hotel as predicted.

A Harvard study found that 4 hours of screen time before bed suppresses melatonin by 55% and delays your circadian clock by 1.5 hours (Chang et al.) Just published my baseline melatonin and cortisol curves from a 4-point saliva test, before I spend a year without screens These could change substantially within just a week or two without screens A year from now we'll know what happens when you reverse that completely

New: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term. propub.li/4m4Vzmf

Thomas Massie is sounding the alarm. Congress is about to pass a liability shield for Bayer — a foreign corporation — that would strip Americans of the right to sue when glyphosate gives them cancer. Massie: “This is not to grant farmers immunity. This is to grant corporations immunity. If you contract non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma from this chemical — you won’t be able to sue.” Bayer has already paid billions settling cancer lawsuits. This bill ends future lawsuits permanently. RFK Jr. built his brand on MAHA. Trump is urging Republicans to pass it anyway.

We called it. Today, Trump confirmed his “presidential library” - the one @MDCollege handed over for $10 - will be a luxury hotel. The most valuable land our students ever owned. Gone. For $10. Soon to be a high-rise for a corrupt president. Our local state lawmakers who said nothing, did nothing, should be ashamed.

@WeatherProf March is the most extreme-prone month in USA March 2012 was the previous most anomalous month with the current baseline March 1910 was the previous most anomalous month in relative term for each baseline March 1907 was the Most States records breaker March 2026 beat' em all

To have an idea of the exceptionality of this March 2026 in USA,for several stations in the West,March 2026 is being hotter than ANY April on record Monthly anomalies are up to +16F vs 1991/2020 (Flagstaff). Some records exceeded by as much as 4F those of April (Flagstaff again)

One month of mindfulness meditation training was linked to enhanced connectivity across key large-scale brain networks involved in attention, self-awareness, and cognitive control.

WOW. Having worked in this field, I cannot overstate how remarkable this is. Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive, deadly brain cancers we know. THIS is why we fund science.

ADHD brains seem to slip into brief “sleep-like” states even while awake. These sleep-like slow waves were linked to more mistakes, slower reactions, attention lapses, and higher sleepiness. ADHD is not just a focus problem. It may also be a wakefulness problem.

🚨 2026 Research: The Fitter You Are, The Smarter Your Brain Responds A brand new 2026 study just uncovered how fitness rewires your brain in real time. What the latest science shows: - Fitness amplifies your brain boost After 12 weeks of training, participants released more BDNF after exercise, not at rest - VO₂ max is the key driver The greater the improvement in aerobic fitness, the bigger the BDNF spike - Your brain upgrades with training Even a single workout becomes more powerful once you're fitter - BDNF directly affects brain function Higher post-exercise BDNF linked to changes in prefrontal cortex activity - Executive performance gets the biggest gain Improvements seen in attention and inhibition, not memory - Results can start fast Brain response improvements can begin in as little as 6 weeks You are not just training your body. You are training your brain to respond better every single time you move.

The nazification of Israel is complete. They’re about to mass murder ~10,000 Palestinian hostages, many of them children. Greater Israel is the 4th Reich.

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran. This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war. Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons. I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late. Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

A federal judge just ruled that videos of DOGE staffers must stay up — and they are devastating. Under oath, they couldn't define DEI. They admitted they never reduced the deficit. And they wiped out $100 million in humanities grants — including a Holocaust documentary — using ChatGPT. The regime tried to bury this. It didn't work. dworkinsubstack.com/p/shut-it-down…

A walk in a natural environment was associated with about a 7% reduction in rumination and decreased activity in the subgenual prefrontal cortex, a brain region linked to repetitive negative thinking and self-focused withdrawal. In contrast, a comparable walk in an urban setting did not produce significant changes.

Vitamin D and Sleep Adequate levels of vitamin D are necessary for the maintenance of sleep and reducing the number of nocturnal awakenings 30-60 minutes daily sunlight is one of the most important things you can do for your health & energy Get sunlight daily!!

@LosPollosPhilly @ManagerTactical He lost worse....5-1 against Colombia...or did you forget?

@ManagerTactical Gregg wouldn’t lose this badly.

4-1 Belgium… just end the game. WTF is this 2nd half?!? What was Pochettino thinking with these subs? Was he thinking?